Brooke Carey Ahrens is Google Certified Teacher and Instructional Technology Coordinator at a private bay area high school. She holds an MLIS and MA in Education from SJSU. Before focusing on Youth Librarianship in SJSU SLIS program, she worked as an English and Social Studies teacher for 11 years.

Anne received her BA from Bowdoin College and her MLIS from San Jose State University. Soon after being accepted into San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science, she began working at Moreau Catholic high school as a library assistant and became co-librarian two years later. During her final summer as a graduate student, she served as the Exploratorium's Learning Commons and Teacher Institute intern where she supported a cohort of math and science teachers from around the country. At Moreau Catholic, Anne helped to implement the 23 Things, developed the Live from MCHS program, founded the MCHS Library 24 Hr. Read-a-thon, and serves as curriculum consultant to faculty members - connecting teachers to relevant information, professionals in their field, and professional development opportunities. Additionally, Anne partners with teachers to provide in-class instruction on a variety of topics that pertain to information and digital literacy and collaborates with faculty to build subject assignment-specific LibGuides.

Mary Ann Bell, BA, MLS, Ed.D. is a Professor in the Department of Library Science, Sam Houston State University, where she teaches classes related to technology and librarianship. She is the author of Internet and Personal Computer Fads, Haworth Press, 2004 and Cybersins and Digital Good Deeds: A Book About Technology and Ethics, Haworth Press, 2006. Her most recent book, School Librarians and the Technology Department: A Practical Guide to Succesful Collaboration, came out in May 2013. She has also written numerous journal publications and presented conference presentations on the topics of information ethics and creative teaching with technology. She is active in Texas Library Association, American Library Association, and Texas Computer Education Association. She received her BA from Baylor University, her MLS from Sam Houston State University, and her EdD from Baylor University. She enjoys nature photography, hiking, reading and trying out new devices and resources to keep up with technology.

Since 1995, Tasha has been exploring what makes for successful information literacy instruction in corporate, non-profit, subscription, and school libraries, and through aferschool programs and summer camps. Most recently, Tasha was the Search Educator at Google, where she wrote lesson plans, the Power Searching MOOCs, and - most importantly - collaborated with other librarians around the world. Tasha looks forward to advancing these conversations and collaborations with her peers in her new role as Instructional and Programming Librarian for Castilleja School. 

Andrew is one of the STEM and Web Services Librarians at California State University, East Bay. He is the liaison for the Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science and Psychology departments, as well as an instructor for LIBY 1210: Introduction to Information Literacy. His interests including emerging technology, makerspaces, user interface design and mobile technology. He previously worked for The Harker School, a private K-12 school in San Jose as the Electronic Resources Librarian. This will be his third time presenting at Internet Librarian. 

Carol Deviney has a Masters degree in Library Science and is currently a middle school librarian in Kyle, Texas. Not only has she been a school librarian for middle and high schools, she has also been in academic and special libraries, giving her a unique perspective on the research needs of students. She has presented at many conferences at the state and national level with an emphasis on library instruction and collaboration with the classroom teacher.

Polly-Alida Farrington, is a consultant and the owner of PA Farrington Associates, with more than 15 years’ experience providing technology-related training, web project development, and consulting services to libraries, library systems, and schools. A former academic librarian, she has 17 years experience in reference, government documents, interlibrary loan, and technology. She has a keen interest in how libraries & schools are using technology and adapting to change, and loves helping people explore emerging technologies and assess how technology can help deliver better services to customers.  She and Kyle M.L. Jones are the co-authors of Library Technology Reports, April 2011 (47:3), Using WordPress as a Library Content Management System and Learning from Libraries that Use WordPress: Content-Management System Case Studies and Best Practices (2012, ALA Editions). When not in front of a computer, she can be found in her garden trying to help things grow Her website is pafa.net

Michelle Simon Fromme is Head Librarian at Wildwood Middle and Upper School in Los Angeles, California. She earned her Master's degree in Information and Library Studies, with a specialization in Archival Studies, from the University of California, Los Angeles. She enjoys using her background in archival studies to introduce students to a multitude of primary sources and loves watching their faces as history comes alive. Currently she is promoting the use of online tools to encourage students, teachers and librarians to collaborate and participate in making the library both a physical and virtual space for teaching and learning. She treasures creating safe, inviting, comfortable, and inspiring information-filled spaces for her community.

Susan Geiger has been the librarian at Moreau Catholic High School in Hayward, California for 28 years. Susan has been involved with schools, technology and the Internet since creating her school's first website in the mid nineties with a group of students. Moreau Catholic initiated a one to one laptop program in 2007. The library has been an intregal part of this transition and provides just-in-time tech support to faculty, students and staff. A ubiquitous computing environment  has created an opportunity for Susan and her staff to take on some non-traditional roles as infomation prosfessionals within the school community and redefine the role of the library.

Buffy J. Hamilton is a high school librarian and teacher at The Unquiet Library in Canton, Georgia, with nineteen years of experience as an educator as a high school English teacher, technology integration specialist, and librarian.   She is passionate about creating meaningful learning experiences for students and teachers. A 2011 Library Journal Mover and Shaker, Buffy's  interests include social media, participatory learning and culture, ethnographic studies, digital composition, personal learning environments, poetry, and social scholarship.  

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 I am a National Board Certified Librarian,  working full time developing literacy programs with technology integration in Stevenson School Library. Along with K-12 teaching expertise; I have presented regional, national & international workshops. I am 2008 National School Boards Association’s “20 to Watch” emerging leader. I participated in the Yahoo! Teachers of Merit program & was lead blogger on official blog.  Last two summers I participated in the PBWorks Summer Camp. I mentor National Board candidates at Stanford & San Francisco & teach on-line NB courses at National University.

Brian currently holds a position in Electronic Resources at the Simon Schwob Memorial Library of Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. He presents at the state, regional, and national level on a myriad of topics ranging from accessible services to innovative technologies. All the while enthusiastically continuing to explore and learn new technologies in hopes to promote and excite others with a contagious dedication for clear and inspiring library service.

His professional interest include equal access to information, intellectual freedom, digital and technology based services, 21st century literacies, and making libraries a key component in the ever changing climate of information and communication. Outside of libraryland he is a triathlete, cycling enthusiast, Pilates instructor, and coffee shop frequenter.

Kathleen has presented at several conferences in the Library and Technology fields. She provided the keynote speech for Mosaic Day - part of the Seattle Children's International Festival. She has been a Librarian for 33 years, worked in high tech for three years where she set up a digital engineering library for a cryptography firm. Kathleen was also a software applications trainer for 5 years. Overseas she collaborated with a colleague to set-up a national cultural archives for the country of Burkina Faso. Her wiki on 21st Century Learning won the 2008 Golden Can award for best education 2.0 wiki on Wetpaint.

The conference powerpoint can be found on Slideshare by searching for "Diigo - Your Outboard Brain" or by searching on her user name SIMKathy.

Kyle M. L. Jones, MLIS, is a Ph.D. student in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Library and Information Studies. Originally from Byron, IL, Kyle received his BA in with honors from Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, IL in the spring of 2007 and his Masters degree with honors at Dominican University in River Forest, IL in their Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 2009. He defines his research as being in the e-learning informatics branch of the social informatics literature. Currently, he is investigating the student privacy conceptions and concerns related to learning analytics technologies.

Patricia Martin, a noted expert on commerce and culture, is author of the book Renaissance Generation: The Rise of the Cultural Consumer and What it Means to Your Business. She pioneered the point of view that the convergence of art, technology and learning are remaking the American consumer. As CEO of LitLamp Communications, she helps knowledge-economy leaders successfully position, package and pitch their ambitious ideas in a changing culture. Martin conjured a sponsorship strategy for the Asian tour of the New York Philharmonic, spearheaded a viral Information Privacy initiative funded by George Soros, and launched Animal Planet. Before founding the firm in 1995, Martin created the first-of-its-kind sponsorship marketing division for the ALA.

Until January 2012 Michael Ridley was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Librarian at the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada). Currently, on sabbatical, he is writing a “book-like-thing” on literacy, completing a graduate degree in higher education, editing Access (the magazine of the Ontario Library Association), teaching, and consulting with a number of professional organizations.

Ridley has been a professional librarian since 1979 working at a variety of positions at the University of Guelph, the Health Sciences Library at McMaster University, and the University of Waterloo. In 1995 he returned to the University of Guelph as the Chief Librarian and in 2004 was named the CIO.

Ridley has served as the President of the Canadian Association for Information Science, President of the Ontario Library Association, and Chair of the Ontario Council of University Libraries. I have been a member of the Board of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN),and the Canadian University Council of CIOs (CUCCIO). Currently he is serving on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION).

In 2007 Ridley was named “Academic Librarian of the Year” by the Ontario College and University Library Association (OCULA), a division of the Ontario Library Association (OLA). In 2008 he was awarded the newly renamed Larry Moore OLA Distinguished Service Award from the Ontario Library Association. In 2010 I was honoured to be awarded the Miles Blackwell Award for Outstanding Academic Librarian by the Canadian Association of College and University Libraries (a division of the Canadian Library Association).

In 2013 Ridley was presented with the 2013 Outstanding Alumni Award from the Faculty of Information Alumni Association (FIAA), University of Toronto.

Donna Scheeder is currently the Deputy Chief Information Officer at the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. Previously she served as Director, Law Library Services, at the Law Library of the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2010. Prior to her service in the Law Library, Ms. Scheeder held a number of positions with increasing responsibilities at the Congressional Research Service.

 She is a former President and Treasurer of SLA. She is also a SLA fellow and a recipient of the John Cotton Dana award given in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of special librarianship. Ms. Scheeder is the current President-elect and a  member of the Governing Board of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and has been a member of the Standing Committee on Libraries and Research Services for Parliaments for 8 years. She is a member of the Advisory Board for both the Computers in Libraries and Internet Librarian conferences.

Andrew Shuping is currently the Interlibrary Loan & Public Services Librarian at Jack Tarver Library, Mercer University, Macon, GA. He has been involved in libraries for over nine years in various capacities ranging from Emerging Technologies to Interlibrary Loan to Reference/Instruction and more. He is also an artist, a user experience practitioner, open access advocate, emerging technologies advocate, and an advocate for thinking past the rules in the modern world.  Andrew can be found at ashuping.net and goes by the user name ashuping where ever he can, such as on Twitter: @ashuping.

Sue Smith is the director of The Harker School's three campus libraries and school archives. She is a member of ALA, YALSA, AASL, ACRL and Bay Area Independent School Library associations. She is frequent presenter on electronic information discovery and collaborative teaching at local and regional conferences including CAIS, BAISL and the Harker Tech Institute. This is her second appearance as a presenter at Internet@Schools.

I am the CIO/IT Director for the DC Public Library.  While relatively new to the library world, I have had a richly peripatetic career taking me from upstate New York, to Little Rock, Arkansas, then Tokyo, Japan, and finally Washington, DC. I have worked with almost every type of enterprise technology used for the past 20 years, often acting as an implementation analyst or project manager. Even after after many years in IT, I am still fascinated by technology and love trying new programs and experimenting with gadgets, particularly wireless and mobile ones. In my spare time I pursue a number of interests. I love movies and watch them obsessively.

Lauri Vaughan is the Upper School Campus Librarian at The Harker School in San Jose, CA. Harker is a private college preparatory K-12 school in the heart of the Silicon Valley. Lauri also serves as the current vice president of the Bay Area Independent School Librarian (BAISL) association. She has presented to California Association of Independent School conferences as well Internet@Schools in Monterey, California. She is a member of ALA, AASL, and YALSA and writes book reviews for Voice of Youth Advocates, (VOYA).